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catuttho

catuttha

masc nom sg of catuttha (ordin); masc nom sg of catuttha (noun)

1. fourth (4th)
2. (gram) fourth consonant of each vagga; gh, jh, ḍh, dh, bh; lit. fourth

Built from

• catu — root · four
  PIE *kʷetwr̥; cognates: Latin quattuor, English four, Greek tessares. The numeral base for all ordinals in this series.
• -tha — ending · ordinal marker
  PIE *-to- ordinal suffix, seen also in Latin -tus (tertius 'third') and English -th (fourth). Forms abstract ordinal rank from the cardinal number.

Etymology. From catu- 'four' (< PIE *kʷetwr̥, cognate with Latin quattuor, English four) + -tha ordinal suffix (< PIE *-to-), giving the abstract ordinal rank. The ordinal -tha appears throughout Pali: ditiya 'second', tatiya 'third', catuttha 'fourth', etc.

Meanings from the Digital Pāḷi Dictionary; morphology and etymology by Claude.

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